Women participation rate in labour force in Pakistan is only 28 per cent, which is particularly low in the urban areas. Household duties and lack of education are considered by more than 80 per cent Pakistani women as the major reasons for their non-participation in the labour force, said World Development Report 2013, issued by the World Bank.
The WDR 2013 indicates that the worrisome indicator for the country is increased population of youth without having any job as the latest survey of the World Bank shows that there are seven per cent unemployed youth in Pakistan. The report said that miss-management, corruption and energy crisis are major constraints for job creation in Pakistan.
Jobs are the cornerstone of development in developing countries, with a dividend far beyond income alone, says report 2013 on ‘jobs’. The report is critical for reducing poverty, making cities work, and providing youth with alternatives to violence. It explained the global positions of the jobs and said that 1.6 billion people are working for a wage or a salary, 1.5 billion people in farming and self-employment, 77 percent labour force participation by women in Vietnam.
It added that Pakistan’s large percentage of population of 16-24 per cent will need the jobs. It informed that 115 million children are working in hazardous conditions while there are 21 million victims of forced labour across the globe. It informed the participants that 600 million jobs would be needed over next 15 years to keep current employment rate in the world. It added that 90 million people are working abroad while 621 million youth neither working nor studying across the globe…
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